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Defensible AI Strategy

Avoiding the "Wrapper Trap" in an era of commoditized intelligence.

Every major tech company is racing to build general-purpose AI tools. If your internal tool is just a thin wrapper around OpenAI's API, you don't have a product—you have a feature request that is one update away from obsolescence.

The Trap: Building "Horizontal" Capabilities.

Spending $2M to build a tool that "Summarizes PDFs" is capital destruction. Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini will offer this for free (or bundled) within months. You cannot compete on general capabilities.

Vertical Intelligence is the Moat

The only defensible strategy is Vertical Intelligence: deeply integrated workflows that rely on your proprietary data and your specific business logic.

Strategy: Deep Integration & Proprietary Context.

Don't build a generic "Contract Reviewer." Build a "Prismind Contract Auditor" that cross-references your specific 10-year history of negotiated terms, highlights deviations from your specific risk playbook, and auto-drafts responses in your General Counsel's voice. The moat isn't the AI model; it's the proprietary context the model operates within.

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